tech-chat-1

[hallow sonnet]

yo lemme give a quick shoutout to stablebit drivepool

ez way to pool a bunch of random unmatching drives together

gave new life to a bunch of drives I had

[formal sonnet]

Can confirm. Happy DrivePool user since 2016. Love how I don't need the software to recover data if one of the drives in the pool dies, too.

[empty quartz]

I need to get 2 more 4tb sshd’s

[hallow sonnet]

DAMN 10 years. I wish I woulda found this that early.

I've been manually juggling a bunch of drives with a literal physical notebook to write down what I put where

now its just all pooled, with maybe 20mins of setting up the folder dupe settings

absolute bliss

[empty quartz]

Does it work similarly to a jbod setup?

[hallow sonnet]

He obv knows more than me lol, but kinda. it just doesn't stripe any data. full files are stored on each disk. So if something fails or you just take one drive and plop it into another computer, there's no BS. the files that it had, are just there.

pretty optimal for throwing random drives together. I've got 16 drives in mine, 1 NVME, 9 SATA, and 6 USB.

Writes are amazing bc of nvme cache
reads are a lil tough. Not the actual speed, but the latency. opening folders can take quite awhile when you're polling multiple USB drives

anyway- once it's all set up, yes.
ITS GREAT I LIKE IT

[hardy horizon]

Nah lol, I never buy stuff

[formal sonnet]

More or less. To be fair, it's likely less performant than a dedicated ZFS based NAS, but it's by far the best RAID-adjacent system for Windows I've found that doesn't lock you into a proprietary data pooling system.

[hardy horizon]

DOA HDD's, mono with dead HDMI, a power supply that caught fire, dead SSD, and $40 keyboards that died before the return window ended ...

[hallow sonnet]

never buy a lottery ticket ever

[white venture]

took forever to download these and I just got a prompt saying I already have the best drivers...

[hardy horizon]

No SERIOUSLY tho.

[grizzled frost]

you need to start praying to a god of your choosing, cause god damn you have some horrible luck

[hardy horizon]

About ot have to send this Bluetooth speaker back if I can't figure out this BS #tech-chat-1 message

[hardy horizon]

I suspect the power supply shorting was a factor in about $2.5k of it.

[hallow sonnet]

i've literally only had to warranty 2 products in my life

superlight mouse

precision screwdriver

both were handled beautifully

and thats over like 20yrs

[hallow sonnet]

this is how I killed an entire system

friend was like "my computer actin weird can you help"

over the course of troubleshooting, plugged his PSU into my computer

death

[hardy horizon]

Nice. Nothing like smoke pouring out of a system that you were going to wait to build until the case came in so you could put it all together at once... Considering the PSU you didn't shut off almost certainly I would have had a house fire.

[grizzled frost]

that’s why you plug the known working psu into the dubious system and not vice versa

[hallow sonnet]

this was def a learning experience

circa 2014 i wanna say

rip 4790k

[hardy horizon]

Ya idk wtf I'm dealing with here. Is this EMI? Or like do I need to order another house speaker? It's fully charged

[graceful atlas]

can someone who understands gigabyte bios help me enable secure boot without getting locked inside the bios please im so lost🙏

[hardy horizon]

Anker wasn't any help 🙁

Not an app issue either 🤦‍♂️

[hardy horizon]

What do you mean locked in bios?

[graceful atlas]

i get an error about a signature or something like that and it locks me inside

[hardy horizon]

Like these people did?

[graceful atlas]

yea

invalid signature detected check secure boot policy

[rotund gull]

Any Australians got any server case recommendations.

I'm wanting to move my pc to my server rack but all the 4U options are really expensive and limited.

[graceful atlas]

that thing

[graceful atlas]

am i supposed to reset my pc for this?

[hardy horizon]

what did you do to cause the errors? can you undo it?

Anything here that could be causing the garbled ness?

[graceful atlas]

the error only appear when i try to "save & exit" bios when my secure boot is enabled

[hardy horizon]

Just leave it off? Or is that a problem?

[graceful atlas]

i need it on for vanguard anti cheat

[hardy horizon]

I know the AC is a bit loud, even on low. I can't figure this out

[hardy horizon]

Seems to be a lot to check to see if you are even allowed to turn it on without a full wipe

[graceful atlas]

my disk is on gpt already

and csm is disabled already

i don't think i can enable secure boot without having csm disabled

[hardy horizon]

did you install in legacy mode

[graceful atlas]

install what?

[latent gull]

Stupid question but have you restarted windows or checked to see if it happens on other audio devices? Cause I’ve had some really stupid audio bugs on win11 but they affect all output sources

[hardy horizon]

The OS

[hardy horizon]

Onn 4k plus

[graceful atlas]

wdym os i don't understand

[hardy horizon]

The windows, when you installed did you do it in legacy mode?

[graceful atlas]

i don't remember

[hardy horizon]

Microsoft says you must check if you did

[graceful atlas]

how can i check

[hardy horizon]

That info is included in the screenshot I sent, you can look at the Facebook post if you want to do the walk around.

[graceful atlas]

should i just reset my pc to fix it will it be easier?

[hardy horizon]

I mean a clean install from scratch with a clear CMOS is always best. Just depends if you wanna lose your data

[graceful atlas]

with clear cmos? wdym

[latent gull]

Well still have you tried it with other audio outputs?

[rigid fjord]

inb4 you suddenly find out they had bootlocker running on their main drive and it's throwing the error because cpu change

[rigid fjord]

#1027757333117415424 and make a post there, otherwise it's drowned out here

[latent gull]

He can if he wants I don’t care that much

[rigid fjord]

discord 😑, i swear i clicked reply on the other person

[hardy horizon]

let me try pairing this BT keyboard and speaker to the mac and see.

It's okay for now, the other BT speaker was just rushing to sleep IMMEDIATELY and wouldn't recover [JBL Flip 7] and the Flip wasn't loud enough to overcome the 76db air-conditioning. The soundcore Boom 2 is fine, wish it was a bit louder, but I can deal with this. AND it stays connected even when it idles, yeah The does mean I need to keep an eye on it and make sure I charge it every two days but 🤷‍♂️

[hardy horizon]

Okay with Mac even coming out of sleep it doesn't do it but that's because Mac doesn't halt the entire system to reconnect Bluetooth. 🤔

What's weird is JBL Flip 7 did not have this garbled problem. It just would refuse to output audio. And then if I played with volume up and volume down enough it got so latency stacked that the JBL unit would reboot.

So I need the JBL connection, without sleep disconnect, that is also 90w RMS like the soundcore 🤔 any ideas?

[empty quartz]

It feels sooo sketchy driving with a broken rear windshield

[rare helm]

Hi guys. I have a question. I'm looking for the best cheap 2.5 ssd drive on the market. Which brand should I go with?

[empty quartz]

Glad i wont have to do that again

[mint umbra]

Read article that one plus is going to stop global launches

So the 15 the last one plus phone outside of China

I suppose

[hallow sonnet]

lets give a shoutout to av1

i would marry av1 i luv it so much

for nearly 100k yt videos, sub 4tb is crazy imo

[short kiln]

Hey guys, got a question. I recently bought pc parts to put together, now with my psu (corsair sf1000), I can’t reach the 24-pin cable from psu to motherboard.

What can I do to solve this? Are they universal by any chance, can I buy a longer 24-pin cable? Or does it have to be specifically from that corsair psu?

[hallow sonnet]

How are you routing it? how big is your case? from what I've seen they're normally a pretty standard length

[short kiln]

I could send you a picture in dm’s id you’d like

The most ‘optimal’ path for length doesn’t reach

[gaunt spade]

maybe here

[valid fiber]

i need to do something similar
but for me it's more images than videos
so jpegxl will hopefully help me out

[short kiln]

This was the mx length I could reach with the cable

[gaunt spade]

https://giphy.com/gifs/thinking-cat-hmm-hmmm-uUnPYB37kLHvFnH4bi

[hallow sonnet]

that do be a short cable

plop psu up top “temporarily” then never look at it again?

[tired bear]

sff psu's usualy have short cables

get an extension

[short kiln]

Will be close with the gpu on that same height

[short kiln]

An extension is viable? It will not give problems?

[tired bear]

no its fine to use

[hallow sonnet]

if it doesn’t burn down in the first 24hrs then ur fineeee

[short kiln]

Is there anything I need to account for by selecting the extension?

[short kiln]

😅

[hallow sonnet]

don’t make the same mistake i did when ordering a pci riser

ACTUALLY MEASURE WHAT YOU NEED

because a too short adapter is useless : )

[hardy horizon]

I mean if you REALLY like that PSU... Cable mod will do custom cables, or sale the PSU and buy one that's sized properly?

[azure topaz]

https://klipy.com/gifs/jgmm-monkey-think

oh it’s an SFX unit it makes sense tho

it’s meant for small pc

[azure topaz]

make sure they’re 16awg

[short kiln]

That makes sense… Recommend returning or buying an extension. Not quite sure how safe it is

Thanks anyway for the help guys

[rigid fjord]

well you're routing the cable incorrectly there, also what psu?

[short kiln]

It was to show the length, the psu is Corsair SF1000.

[azure topaz]

it’s fine

[rigid fjord]

so, corsair type 5 pinout then, no extensions needed, either you return it and get a proper atx psu or you get corsair's type 5 premium individually sleeved kit, which is the same used for the rmx shift line of psu's

[sinful cobalt]

btw us SFF people still consider the SF cables to be long

[rigid fjord]

nah, you just get corsair's cable kit instead

https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Premium-Individual-Sleeved-Starter/dp/B0G453DYVP @short kiln said kit

$49 for replacement cables, or return said psu and pay likw $100 -160 for a good 850-1000w psu

[rigid fjord]

tbf, sff people could learn to make their own cables instead if they want them shorter instead of considering it as to long

[short kiln]

I will return it most likely, any recommendations for 1000w psu?

[sinful cobalt]

ok

[rigid fjord]

remind me of what gpu and cpu combo you're going for

also what case that is exactly?

[sinful cobalt]

rm1000x

[rigid fjord]

that'll be the shift version instead now tbh

[rigid fjord]

@short kiln ??

[short kiln]

9070 xt and ryzen 7 9800. Case is Corsair 4000 cant recall exactly. Can look it up in 30 min

[rigid fjord]

4000d for the case then

and tbh, you only need 850w max for that setup

[short kiln]

Thats also fine

[rigid fjord]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLFGG1CC/

[short kiln]

Thanks for the help lads

[gaunt spade]

does the 3080 undervolt well

[latent pasture]

🎲

depends if ur lucky ig theres not really a set answer for that

[gaunt spade]

What's the best result i can get I'll just buy it until i get good silicon

[ebon marlin]

Yummy find at work

2tb ssd aswell

Lowkey crazy someone donated this to our recycling center

[tall sandal]

anyone use ASUS ROG Strix laptop here

[ebon marlin]

When this was new it cost 7k eur/usd

[tall sandal]

Always wondered how they hold up over time, especially regarding the Liquid Metal and other stuff

[ebon marlin]

I got a rog strix laptop at work that's completely dead

[tall sandal]

what happened

[ebon marlin]

Seems about right for an Asus product

[tall sandal]

I feel very few people talk about it here

[ebon marlin]

Asus

[tall sandal]

razer blade I heard has more issues

From just Josh tech, at least with ASUS when there is an issue they come out and admit it

[latent pasture]

inb4 more "1 product was bad therefore whole brand bad"

[tall sandal]

But with Razer all these really bad issues, they don’t say

[ebon marlin]

I owned a Razer Blade probably one of the best laptops I've ever used

[tall sandal]

just Josh tech has made a video saying lots of issues with Razer

[ebon marlin]

I don't like Razer it's my most disliked brand but damn that Razer Blade is goddamn nice

[tall sandal]

What about the battery bloat issues

And the keyboard issues, etc

[ebon marlin]

Every battery has that issue

[latent pasture]

razer blades only real downside is the ridiculous price

[ebon marlin]

Every single battery will bloat at one point it's how lithium works

[latent pasture]

the laptops themselves are high quality but definitely not enough to be 3x more expensive than competition

[tall sandal]

The build quality is prob the best of any windows laptop at least

[tall sandal]

Yea but some laptops do it faster

[ebon marlin]

The razer blade config I had was an i7 9750H, Rtx 2070, 32gb ram and 1tb ssd

[tall sandal]

But there seems to an inconsistency in manufacturing of some laptops

With ASUS ROG Strix this is very common, with the Liquid Metal

[ebon marlin]

Not down to the laptop it's moreso down with the lithium cells inside the battery

[tall sandal]

so it is true what you say in some way, with Acer they had it too before

I remember with the old Acer predators, from like 2018 etc

[ebon marlin]

I got the razer blade for very cheap since it had battery bloat

Got it for like 250€ few years back

[tall sandal]

Like the laptop is great, but what I mean is many units are defective

[tall sandal]

Classic Razer

[ebon marlin]

Every laptop will experience battery bloat

Razer cannot control physics

[tall sandal]

Yea but it happens faster on Razer at times idk

Lmao I literally have a friend with a Razer, it’s i7 11800H

[ebon marlin]

Every battery is different

[tall sandal]

And the laptop is warped, literally wobbles on the table

[gaunt spade]

finnish bald man

[tall sandal]

bulging back panel, while I had an old Acer laptop never had that issue

[ebon marlin]

Some will experience it sooner, some might experience it later and some batteries will die before they bloat

Like I said Razer or any other brand cannot control physics

[tall sandal]

Yea

But heat does degrade batteries faster

[latent pasture]

onoes my 1 example is definitive proof

my sister has a lenovo laptop with inflated batter ytoo

so obviously stuff like legions and thinkpads are garbage

[tall sandal]

Legion has some quality control issues

[ebon marlin]

He already thinks thats true

[latent pasture]

lenovo cannot be trusted, they had 1 laptop inflate a battery so all their products are inflate battery faster

[limpid ivy]

Damn I miss the 5k imacs, but ngl that temptation to get one of those retired from a school is real just beacause

[tall sandal]

At least based on my experience, had to return a legion same day due to defective assembly of the cooling system

[tall sandal]

Yea I mean there was inconsistency in manufacturing in my case

[latent pasture]

i also had an old hp laptop whos battery also died

therefore all hp laptops bad too

[ebon marlin]

This also happens with Asus

[latent pasture]

i think my dads old acer laptop had bad battery too that need to be constantly plugged in

[tall sandal]

the laptop literally day one was having astronomical levels of thermal throttling. I think it was warped the cooling system

just someone messed up in the factory

[latent pasture]

so acer is bad too

maaaan all laptop brands are bad

[tall sandal]

nah hp is actually bad

The build quality sucks on omen

It’s cheap and it creaks, the hinge is also bad

[latent pasture]

some macbooks had horrible design issues that caused death by literally opening and closing the laptop

so macbooks are also always bad

[tall sandal]

Absolutely yes, happens in many brands

[tall sandal]

Wdym

Nah MacBooks have the best build quality

They last so long, just has bad thermals that’s all

[ebon marlin]

I got a HP Omen at my work table rn it's made out of plastic fully but build quality isn't bad

[latent pasture]

lmao now that i attack their favorite brand with their own logic that they use to justify how many laptop brands are bad, they now ask for clarification and proof

absolute classic

[ebon marlin]

Well yeah aluminum is durable

[tall sandal]

I have no favourite

[gaunt spade]

what specs

[tall sandal]

All I care is that I don’t get a defective unit. And the laptop has good quality

[gaunt spade]

dont some 40 series omen laptops have mobo issues

[latent pasture]

ive heard this for like 5 brands now lol

[ebon marlin]

I'm lowkey fascinated by how every third worlder is attracted to the Asus Rog Strix branding

[tall sandal]

In a video I watched the reviewer said the laptop creaks when carrying it

[ebon marlin]

Idk mine doesn't

[tall sandal]

It’s a great laptop other than the Liquid Metal issues

The build quality is amazing, it looks great

[abstract wigeon]

just get a snapdragon laptop

[tall sandal]

It has excellent thermals if the Liquid Metal is properly applied

[gaunt spade]

is it 40 series

[ebon marlin]

Asus Rog Strix models literally have controversies for very inconsistent build quality

[tall sandal]

The problem is with the Liquid Metal

The cooling assembly inconsistencies

[ebon marlin]

It's an older model with a i5 6300hq and gtx 965m

[gaunt spade]

oof

[ebon marlin]

Not even that

[tall sandal]

That’s the main issue I think, Becuase sometimes it’s not applied well from the factory

[ebon marlin]

That's just the tip of the iceberg

[tall sandal]

I haven’t seen ppl complain about build quality just mostly Liquid Metal problem

The hinges feel sturdy

[kindred halo]

@ebon marlin No longer budgeting for a phone
Buying a laptop instead 💔

[tall sandal]

Like what?

[tall sandal]

Isn’t that something with the LOQ

[ebon marlin]

https://youtu.be/7dxRNDr_sLU?si=CZ4P6NKuwtB3Useg

[tall sandal]

Lenovo loq has mobo issues

[ebon marlin]

Asus literally has hinge cracking issues

[kindred halo]

Yep
Fixed in the 10th gens though

[tall sandal]

Isn’t that MSI

MSI literally is known for their hinge issues

[ebon marlin]

Also MSI but also Asus

[kindred halo]

ASUS have cooling issues where the gases in the Heatsink literally evaporate lmfao

[tall sandal]

oh yes, I’ve heard that with Razer too

[kindred halo]

MSI also has shit build quality on everything but their most expensive laptops

[tall sandal]

But I think with ASUS it’s liquid metal defects

[ebon marlin]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/1nm6pxm/asus_rog_strix_g16_2025_g615lr_very_poor_build/

[ebon marlin]

Mate Asus literally has issues with basically everything

And these are very regular for Asus

[tall sandal]

Brand new laptop is overheating people say, from the factory they butchered the LM application

[gaunt spade]

idk about loq but i know omens have that problem

[tall sandal]

So then which laptop brand would you say has a lower level of issues

[ebon marlin]

I genuinely do not understand what is it wkth poor peoples fascination of Asus Rog Strix branding

[tall sandal]

For example MacBook Pros are great, but they run too hot

[ebon marlin]

I literally owned an Asus Rog Strix G14 not too long ago and the gpu inside it was completely dead

[gaunt spade]

what laptop do you recommend

[ebon marlin]

Every laptop has issues but if I had to choose I'd choose Lenovo no questions

Least amount of prevalent issues

[ebon marlin]

Depends on use case and budget

[tall sandal]

I mean yea

If I didn’t get a defective unit it would be great

[gaunt spade]

something with like atleast 4060 or higher performance and preferably with a good enough integrated gpu to play basic games while on battery

[tall sandal]

genuinely they do have good laptops, Lenovo legion.

Just as I mentioned we didn’t get a legion again

Becuase my mom didn’t want to buy form that store

[ebon marlin]

Then couple years before this I had another Asus Rog Strix laptop it's battery became bloated and died, the body of it was very poor quality, hinge's were very poor quality, keyboard had issues which needed to be replaced

[tall sandal]

Dammm sounds bad

Yea there is less chronic issues with Lenovo

A defective unit is not their fault, it’s the factory, whoever was working that day messed up badly

[ebon marlin]

Damn someone's selling a BC250 here lol

I wish there was a case for it you could get without having to own a 3d printer

[tall sandal]

ASUS zephyrsus does really have a cracking issue with hinge

[ebon marlin]

Would've snagged it

[tall sandal]

I have even seen a reviewer say it, but the guy seemed too nice to complain about it

[ebon marlin]

The Zephyrus G14 I had had decent hinges but the gpu dying was not nice

[ebon marlin]

Also remember that reviewers literally get paid to do good reviews

[tall sandal]

Why did it die

heat?

[ebon marlin]

It just randomly died one day

Wasn't using it for anything intensive

[tall sandal]

Damm that’s bad

Prob just a defect then

[ebon marlin]

If reviewers give bad reviews they literally get blacklisted by the compnay

Iirc Asus literally had this as a controversy a year or 2 ago

[tall sandal]

Well what if they are not sponsored

The what, I’ve seen bad reviews of many gaming laptops

[kindred halo]

I am glad that the Legion 5 15AHP10 has VRR on its 1200p screen

[latent pasture]

some reviewers buy/borrow laptops on their own

[tall sandal]

That this reviewer has said this laptop is bad

[kindred halo]

Ofcourse ASUS was doing this shite 💔

[ebon marlin]

Ofc it's the same company that literally breaks ur stuff to refuse RMA

[tall sandal]

Is there any issues with MacBooks in your opinion @ebon marlin

[ebon marlin]

I don't use macs

[native path]

The gpu fan rattling was not nice either

[tall sandal]

Ye, so it would be perfect if the thermal issues were fixed

[kindred halo]

This is why I shill for Lenovo ❤️

They're not perfect but atleast they're not MSI or ASUS

[tall sandal]

Yea Lenovo is good

[ebon marlin]

Lmao

It's way worse than I thought

[kindred halo]

Their laptops have issues but they're usually fixed a generation after

And people's RMA'd items aren't
Y'know
Broken to reject the claim

[tall sandal]

Yea I mean some models have had issues

But they were fixed I think next gen

When I mean issues like design problems, that affect all units

[ebon marlin]

Also Asus downgrades their AMD laptop counterparts aswell

[tall sandal]

not just a bad factory assembly like I got, which is not Lenovos fault

[kindred halo]

What a dogshit company

[kindred halo]

Yeah factory defects are, well, defects

[ebon marlin]

https://youtu.be/Qd-SXvTEjbk?is=5Y4u5I2D1rJwQeM1

[rigid fjord]

when it comes to macbooks the only issue i'm aware of, is to do with the cpu and ssd, which if it breaks it looks you out of the ssd

[kindred halo]

They usually appear within warranty period

[ebon marlin]

Literally same exact laptops just with the option to choose Intel or AMD

[kindred halo]

Yeah, those usually get tended to

[tall sandal]

I think this guy says positive reviews about this laptop

[tall sandal]

Which is just back luck

That has for some reason come to me more than others, cuz maybe it’s a region thing

[ebon marlin]

Pal hasn't even watched the video

[tall sandal]

Never experienced this in Singapore but did in UK frequently

[ebon marlin]

There's an insane difference between the 2 despite being the same laptops

[tall sandal]

I have, I know this guy likes these

[ebon marlin]

No you haven't

[native path]

I once sent my G14 laptop in for a GPU fan fix and they replaced my CPU fan

[tall sandal]

maybe not fully I watched

But parts I wanted to see

[ebon marlin]

You don't even need to fully watch it to see how glaring the differences sre

[rigid fjord]

found jarrod takes a pretty even account of the laptops he reviews tbh @tall sandal

[kindred halo]

Lenovo hates the UK
Don't blame them, I do aswell

[ebon marlin]

Pal is defending Asus like his life depends on it

[tall sandal]

He does yea, pretty good reviewer

[ebon marlin]

It's a shitty company

[tall sandal]

Yea UK there seems to be more defects

not even making this up, before I bought this laptop.

[kindred halo]

Not enough
Make it blow up

[tall sandal]

My TUF, I had gotten 2 before and there was serious issues

First one kept blacking out, literally first few days

[native path]

dang that’s tuf

[tall sandal]

And second was a Lenovo legion 7i, it had horrific thermals, was a defect

It was reaching 105C second I launched a stress test and having over 60% thermal throttling

[native path]

Nobody laughed?

[tall sandal]

So yea never seen thay before, this was the legion 7i with the defect

[tall sandal]

Fr

But hey at least my ASUS TUF doesn’t have any defects, the cooling system likely was assembled properly and thermal paste application is decent

[native path]

Well maybe if you bought the premium version, the CPU wouldn’t be overheating

[tall sandal]

this was very premium, it was a defect with my unit

others on YouTube weren’t doing this, it was a Lenovo legion 7i

[native path]

I don’t believe that it says trial version

[tall sandal]

That’s just a software to stress test

[native path]

Get the premium version!

[tall sandal]

it’s ADIA 64

[native path]

Maybe I need a tone indicator

[tall sandal]

I always use this on my laptops when I get it

this is my ASUS TUF, it’s properly thermals compared to that

@rigid fjord Jarrods tech really seemed to like the ASUS TUF A16

He never said anything bad about ASUS, but granted he doesn’t say anything about the brand itself

Just reviews laptops

[ebon marlin]

Asus tuf also has low end stuff in it which aren't difficult to cool

They're cheap for a reason

[tall sandal]

Nah mine does have high wattage, it’s not massive, only was 102w

[tall sandal]

Mine wasn’t cheap at all

[native path]

Cheaper*

Compared to their STRIX lineup

[tall sandal]

I mean Strix I have found models cheaper than this

But they have lower GPU, still this is the highest end TUF

[native path]

Yup

[tall sandal]

Nah this ain’t low end

[native path]

You won’t be finding many strix models with a high end cpu and a 5070 at 1.5k at 16 inches

[tall sandal]

I’m literally getting like 32k in cinebench R23

[ebon marlin]

Asus Tuf is a low end line

[tall sandal]

Yea but this is High end CPU

[tall sandal]

It’s in pounds, laptops are cheaper in USA always

[ebon marlin]

Asus Tuf is an entry level to lower mid-range laptop line

You can search it up for yourself if needed

[tall sandal]

As I said before the only reason I got this was due to lack of LM

I would have gotten the strix if it didn’t have LM

I got a Lenovo legion 7i before it but I said it had a defect, then after that parents didn’t allow another legion

the model I wanted was only in a physical store in the UK, and my mom never wants to buy from there again

[kindred halo]

TuF are their lower-medium end gaming laptops

RoG / Strix are their medium-higher end

Zephyrus are their highest end

Is this right?

[ebon marlin]

You keep saying this every other sentence

You're like a parrot lol

[tall sandal]

Yea ofc but I’m saying that like this was the only option

[dawn zephyr]

Can anyone help me with my rgb on my fans I did a tech support forum

[tall sandal]

I’m perfectly aware it’s not the highest end thing lmao

[ebon marlin]

Zephyrus doesn't necessarily mean their highest end

[tall sandal]

that compromises had to be made

[kindred halo]

Oh

I'll check it out then online

[kindred halo]

Yeah?

[tall sandal]

Strix scar is the highest end

[ebon marlin]

For example the Zephyrus I had was a Ryzen 7 4800H with an Rtx 2060

[tall sandal]

Btw I don’t think Ryzen 9 8940HX is easy to cool

They have limited this CPU in this model to 100w and 135 very short term boost

[native path]

Zephyrus is like their middle of the pack iirc

[dawn zephyr]

Like my pc fully works built everything yk works blah blah blah no problems I just can’t get the rgb fans to like shine

[tall sandal]

in The older model, this was 135 sustained and it was overheating

[native path]

Strix would be their mid-high
Strix Scar is their high

i believe

[tall sandal]

Strix scar is the highest end

[tall sandal]

It’s premium, not highest end specs but it’s supposed to be really premium

but still people complain of issues with the hinges

[native path]

I hated my g14

It was solid for the price but I’m never going back to that piece of shit again

[kindred halo]

Did you connect the 3 pin ARGB cables

[tall sandal]

What happened with it

[native path]

This

[tall sandal]

honestly I’ve always wanted a pc, a gaming pc

I would have gotten that instead but parents don’t allow due to portability as I said

[tall sandal]

Yea defective fan rip

[kindred halo]

Okay so

TuF is their specific low-medium end line

Strix G is the lower end Strix
Strix Scar is the higher end Strix

Zephyrus are their slim line of laptops
Zephyrus G is the lower end Zephyrus
Zephyrus S is the higher end Zephyrus

[tall sandal]

yea ASUS TUF is entry level

[dawn zephyr]

I don’t think so u got a photo or smth

[tall sandal]

But that doesn’t necessarily mean hardware is low end

the highest end ASUS TUF is still insane specs

With the CPU

[native path]

Along with the trackpad dying, everytime it went to sleep (even on shutdown tbh) it went through this long BS automatic repair which served no purpose because i’d boot to windows anyway and it never found an error, image found off reddit https://preview.redd.it/g14-2024-automatic-repair-when-booting-v0-11e8u0ldxvpe1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=5598623aff0dc82a21daad22128c3f68fde27453

[native path]

I sent it in for a warranty repair explicitly saying that the trackpad is dead and the GPU fan is faulty, they fixed my trackpad (thank god) and replaced my CPU fan

[kindred halo]

Two cables come out of your fans if they're ARGB

[tall sandal]

Is everything working ok now?

[native path]

I went through with that fan for another 2 years in school before selling it off

[kindred halo]

The first one is what powers the fan itself

[tall sandal]

Ahh I see

[kindred halo]

Second one is for the ARGB

[tall sandal]

What laptop you have now?

[native path]

Nope gpu fan still broke and it still goes through the automatic repair, sold it for $580 USD

[native path]

At the moment no laptop aside from my work laptop, I’m intending on getting the M5 MacBook Pro or Air depending on how badly I want the better screen and speakers

[tall sandal]

I mean yea MacBook is good

[dawn zephyr]

Could I call u or smth to show the commenters

[kindred halo]

Image

What model are your fans

[tall sandal]

just thermals are challenged, if you do heavy things may not be the best option

If you push it hard, but if you do basic things it’s good

[native path]

That’s why I’m thinking about the Pro, that model has fans as well

[tall sandal]

It’s still bad thermals

[native path]

Their thermals are fine as well for what im doing tbh I’m not doing anything crazy

[tall sandal]

It’s cool at idle, or light use

[dawn zephyr]

Came with the case

[tall sandal]

But if you use 100% cpu load it gets very hot

Staying at near 100 sustained from what I’ve seen

[native path]

Yes I won’t be sustaining 100%

[dawn zephyr]

Is it this or the other 3 pin

[gaunt spade]

https://tenor.com/view/gaming-cat-gif-23528583

[tall sandal]

Yea so then it’s ok

but if you do things like video editing

[gaunt spade]

this is argb

[native path]

No I won’t be im chilling in cybersecurity

[tall sandal]

or cpu heavy workloads, a larger laptop is good

[tall sandal]

Ahh

Build quality is amazing on MacBooks

[native path]

Indeed

[dawn zephyr]

I don’t see where it could go into my motherboard

[tall sandal]

Honestly the best of the best

[gaunt spade]

the other end goes to the motherboard and if you have multiple daisychain them and connect one to the motherboard

or you might have a controller on the back

[native path]

Or this ^

[dawn zephyr]

Tried fitting the 3 pin one that goes into it and it’s loose

[tall sandal]

What do you guys really think about AMDs 3D CPUs?

[native path]

It’s going to be a little loose, there’s no click to it

[tall sandal]

anyone use them?

[native path]

I’m on a 7800X3D, I’m pleased with it

[gaunt spade]

https://giphy.com/gifs/speech-bubble-text-chat-NjlRswMybn6VC8Vi8V

[dawn zephyr]

Do I plug it into jrgb1?

[native path]

Yes

[tall sandal]

How’s the thermals?

I heard these run hot

[gaunt spade]

show it

[native path]

I dunno im not a big thermals guy

[tall sandal]

when you are on full CPU load

[gaunt spade]

it might be rgb and not argb

[tall sandal]

I am, cuz I’ve literally had so many issues with laptop thermals in the past

[native path]

It’s cooled with a arctic freezer iii 360 pro

[native path]

That’s because laptop thermals generally suck

[tall sandal]

Nah fr

[gaunt spade]

yea thats the laptops fault

[gaunt spade]

no not jrgb1

[native path]

I lied sorry

[gaunt spade]

whast the mobo model

[tall sandal]

I mean it does go to 95 Ryzen 7000 series if you fully push it

But AMD said its safe for the CPU

[dawn zephyr]

MSI B650 plus WiFi

[tall sandal]

So in games how’s performance?

The 3D v cache how many extra fps does it get you

[gaunt spade]

its on the top right of the mobo

[dawn zephyr]

What’s it called the pin connector

[native path]

I don’t fully push it idk

[dawn zephyr]

There’s one at the bottom called JARGB2

[gaunt spade]

jrgb2 propably and its like the head you showed

[native path]

I have no clue - I’ve never tried a 7800X

[tall sandal]

Yea

[gaunt spade]

wait

[tall sandal]

what’s your GPU?

[native path]

3070ti

[tall sandal]

Yea pretty decent

[gaunt spade]

on the msi website the mobo picture is so low quality

[dawn zephyr]

I’ll show the connector I have aswell

[gaunt spade]

send the pic of the second connector you found

[tall sandal]

@gaunt spade btw did you decide to get a laptop

[gaunt spade]

yea it has to go into somehting just like that 1+2 pin and not 4 pin

[tall sandal]

you were talking about it here before

[gaunt spade]

im searching

[tall sandal]

You found anything good?

[dawn zephyr]

I tried putting it into one and it don’t work before @gaunt spade

[tall sandal]

Tbh I just recommend legion Ngl

[tall sandal]

or ASUS TUF, those are the best options

[gaunt spade]

into this one??

im not gonna buy tuf

[native path]

Yea looks like that one

I don’t see any label 😂

[tall sandal]

why not

[native path]

Thanks MSI

[gaunt spade]

holy shit the websites even worse theres no closeup for all the connectors and it only shows rgb once and its the 5v one

[tall sandal]

Btw is this a good mobo, wondering if I build a pc sometime

[gaunt spade]

@dawn zephyr the one on the bottom is argb i think

jargb 2

[dawn zephyr]

There’s one at the bottom similar to the one u showed it’s called jargb_v2 could I use that @gaunt spade

[gaunt spade]

high iq play

[gaunt spade]

yea if its 1+2

[native path]

Every single manufacturer needs to provide a high quality image guide to every connector it can’t be that difficult

[dawn zephyr]

Well when I boot it no rgb comes on

[gaunt spade]

😭

son

show

the pins on the jargb2

[gaunt spade]

even this is not enough but so much better

[gaunt spade]

what

is this b650M??

[dawn zephyr]

Lemme show u what I bought

[gaunt spade]

no its the normal

u dont need to check

[gaunt spade]

msi is just so stupid that theydont even attach the right motherboard pictures so the jargb is somewhere else here

[dawn zephyr]

Well it’s turned on and there’s no rgb

[gaunt spade]

pull it out and show the pins on the board

[dawn zephyr]

It’s a 3 pin

[gaunt spade]

very weird

[kindred halo]

What's your case

[gaunt spade]

yea thats correct

[kindred halo]

Yes, this

[native path]

This should be required

[dawn zephyr]

Idek some like 50pound/ dollar case

[gaunt spade]

yes

[dawn zephyr]

It’s probably the fans

[kindred halo]

Wait no not this

[gaunt spade]

try the pins on the top right

[kindred halo]

That's the slaving connector

[native path]

No nonsense, straight to the point, exact manual

[dawn zephyr]

I did nothing changed probably the fans

[gaunt spade]

he corrected that

[dawn zephyr]

Bro I had a jump scare a second ago my gpu fans weren’t spinning lmfao returned it on and off it’s fine

Well fuck rgb I give up

[gaunt spade]

try the connector on the top right

[native path]

Heh good thinking

[gaunt spade]

rgb gives fps

[native path]

I have all my RGB fans unplugged anyway

[native path]

RGB Gaming chairs do

[dawn zephyr]

I did no difference

[gaunt spade]

-200 fps

[native path]

No wonder I get 120fps in marathon

[gaunt spade]

ive never seen argb not work on mobo

ive literally put it in while the pc was on and it worked fine

[native path]

Faulty connector?

[gaunt spade]

2 faulty connectors?

[native path]

^^ I’ve done this multiple times with actual fan headers

[gaunt spade]

same

[native path]

Faulty wire?

[gaunt spade]

@dawn zephyr try only one fan so no daisychains

[dawn zephyr]

I give I can’t be asked to take everything apart

Ffs

For some rainbow lights

I’ll do it tho

[native path]

Welcome to the real world

As long as your pc turns on, all the fans work, and the case is fully on

You’re golden

[dawn zephyr]

Ima go mad one of them worked

This shit is so mad annoying but yeah

[abstract wigeon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1126496668263649300/1327256024297508905/caption.gif

[dawn zephyr]

Got them to work it was the daisy chain causing the problem

[rigid fjord]

that's the argb pigtail for you to connect other fans or light strips argb to

[rigid fjord]

this is the better one

[dawn zephyr]

No I did but I didn’t realise the daisy chain was causing the problem

[rigid fjord]

only ever causes a problem if you have to many connected together tbh

[gaunt spade]

https://giphy.com/gifs/shaking-head-selim-helal-selimhelal-Yr9WZb9zxIz0aPAcLi

[gaunt spade]

how many is max

[rigid fjord]

240 led's max per mobo header at best, which depends on how many per led strip or fan tbh

over that and they start dimming/don't light up

in which case you use a powered hub inline like a you'd do with fans

[gaunt spade]

what if i get one fan with 240leds

[rigid fjord]

very unlikely to see on a single fan but only that 1 fan's argb would work on it

and you'd need a powered hub instead to control more from that header

[gaunt spade]

what if its 120 leds but like way brighter

[sinful cobalt]

I dont have RGB fans except for the aorus master which isnt in use

[dawn zephyr]

idk i had 4 but now they aint daisy chaineed and plugged them into there own ones it works

anyways u guys wanna see my first set up picture i took

[rigid fjord]

then only 120 led's off the header unless you used a powered hub

[native path]

I gotta replace 2 fans so they’re all thermalright - I’m just so lazy to open up my case and do it though

[sinful cobalt]

i have a T30 and 2 of the UBW thermalright fans and the aorus master fan sitting around

Also have a P14 but idek if its alive

[native path]

$12.50sgd for a fan seem about right?

I have no clue about fan prices tbh

[cold skiff]

What is sgd

[sinful cobalt]

i paid like 90 something for a pack of 3 t30s

[cold skiff]

Spanish Galleon Dollars?

[native path]

Goodness

[native path]

Singaporean dollars

[cold skiff]

That makes more sense

[sinful cobalt]

best fans behind noctua and it was for a ITX build so I cared more about the noise profile

for my hs420 I just slapped like 6x P14 pros for sub 100 and called it a day

[native path]

Tbh I don’t care much about noise profile, as long as it’s quiet enough I’m good

I have like 8 fans and idk if I wanna replace all of them

And I gotta fix my cpu fan that seems pretty important

[cold skiff]

Setsuna I wanna see you do a full custom loop itx

Well maybe just cpu, gpu a bit of a push

[sinful cobalt]

T30s are the best performing fan behind noctua for performance:sound ratio

[gaunt spade]

t30 my beloved i had 3

[sinful cobalt]

I cant watercool both unless its in the 15L region which I dislike

I also find AIOs in SFF sub 10L stupid unless its for AM5 because LP cooler and AM5 kinda dont mix the best

[cold skiff]

Custom loop would be sick

I guess you’d just put the resovoir over the cpu.. not much room for disaster

[sinful cobalt]

theres people who’ve done it but I personally dont find it worth

[cold skiff]

It’s only worth the flex

But it’s a flex and a half that one

[sinful cobalt]

I rather build/maintain/upgrade existing systems

If I can grab this 32GB DDR5 green stick set of ram and sell it to my friend I lose essentially no money

[cold skiff]

It’s kind of a bit sad that customer waterloops have become less of a thing now we got platform longevity that supports builds better

[sinful cobalt]

I also dont want to maintain a waterloop at all since my HS420 is already on the ground

I at most will only do AIO

My next build Ive also changed plans from a velka 3 to a S21x so instead of 3.99L volume its 3.2L volume

[native path]

Where’d you get them from?

[sinful cobalt]

dynacore

[native path]

Bet

[sinful cobalt]

dynacore has the cheapest parts generally afaik with exceptions going to other retailers if you use shopee

[lapis talon]

Hate Dropbox

I almost got charged $500 USD last year because of google

[gaunt spade]

imagine having 500 usd

[wheat torrent]

I wonder if this would be good for productivity

[dusky spindle]

the learning required to use that would be a lot

[mortal plume]

hey any idea why my fans aren't detected in literally any rgb software whatsoever? it was working fine last month

[wheat torrent]

Undoubtly

[mortal plume]

on top of that if i install an older version of signalrgb it detects them but the second it auto updates it just doesn't anymore

[dusky spindle]

maybe they dropped support for them?

[mortal plume]

everything collectively??

[dusky spindle]

how old are your fans?

[mortal plume]

my ram is also not recognized by newer versions of signalrgb btw

[mortal plume]

barely 2 years

[dusky spindle]

hmm

[abstract wigeon]

tried openrgb?

[dusky spindle]

i have no idea why, maybe check their update logs for some info ig

[mortal plume]

doesn't work either

[mortal plume]

i don't even have it installed i tried icue instead but that does nothing as well

at least it works with my ram but i'm shit outta luck on the fan front

[dusky spindle]

if your fans have original software you could try that

[mortal plume]

arctic has no software

nevermind i guess they do

i hate this industry so fucking much

"works only with arctic rgb controller" i'm literally going to strangle somebody

[lapis talon]

Dad's card 🥹

[dusky spindle]

its the same for aio's i just bought a sata to 3 pin rgb connecter and did the colours from there

[mortal plume]

great so now the thing that was working previously requires me to buy some bullshit

i'm this 🤏 fucking close to ripping all of these fans out and tossing them into the trash

they were working fine FOR ALMOST TWO FUCKING YEARS

[mortal plume]

I am literally never buying anything from arctic again

[normal oak]

you can send a message directly to their QA engineer

[pale heath]

hii, is this the right place to ask about powerbanks

[mortal plume]

Where

[normal oak]

i wish i knew too lmao

[mortal plume]

Bruh

[normal oak]

did u buy on credit

[mortal plume]

Yeah no fuck this I'm just switching my shit to corsair the leds on these fans are ass anyways

[mortal plume]

No + i bought these in 2024

[mortal plume]

Set them to orange they appear pink literally can't have shit

[normal oak]

you're a consumer, with no protections?

[mortal plume]

Not after 2 years i don't

[normal oak]

dangit then you have to upgrade yet again

[mortal plume]

And even then the place i bought it from will take me to take it up with arctic and they will do fucking nothing

Just like iiyama

[normal oak]

the intern made the product. they'll fix it after you complain lol

[mortal plume]

So now i have 6 rgb fans that don't have rgb

[normal oak]

i just use a single wifi LED 100W lightbulb

[mortal plume]

And a monitor with a "0 dead pixel guarantee" with a dead pixel and streaks of miscolored pixels on top of that

[mortal plume]

Doesn't work in my case

No space

[normal oak]

Hmm I would just take the cover off at that point

[mortal plume]

No physical damage btw, it just did this

[mortal plume]

Mind you that's just how it's supposed to look not how it actually looks

This is just proof that budget options aren't worth it because they do not last

The poor man pays twice

[normal oak]

i was sent at least 5 faulty monitors refurbished each cycle waiting a month each. now have to buy brand name

[mortal plume]

Same issue was with my rx7600, a month after i sold it the guy had to get it fixed

"Budget" products are an excuse to sell you actual dog shit

[normal oak]

monitors are made to be consumed/replaced and break down a day after the manufacturer warranty expires lol

[mortal plume]

Yea that was still technically under warranty too but the seller never sent me the warranty document over email and there was no physical copy

[wheat torrent]

[normal oak]

my IPS monitors still survive after hour 5000 of viewing

[mortal plume]

Unironically my longest lasting monitor is my worst one

I overpaid a ton, it's genuinely awful but it's still working the same as day 1 5 years later

Also iiyama

And yet it outlasted the newer and better one

Now i have a temporary 1440p 180hz aoc while i hunt for a job so i can replace it with an oled

[normal oak]

weird im only on 60hz 1080p

[mortal plume]

I'd use this monitor for longer but the ghosting is pmo

[grizzled frost]

shitty VA panel?

[mortal plume]

And no amount of tweaking fixes it

[mortal plume]

Ips

[normal oak]

IPS panel LG 23"

[grizzled frost]

Odd, usually IPS isn't horrible for ghosting

not as good as OLED or Micro LED, but usually not too bad

[mortal plume]

This one is

[normal oak]

its the power adapter that breaks

[mortal plume]

So is my overpriced shitty old iiyama

Both have ghosting issues that the one that broke didn't have

[grizzled frost]

Soon i'll be upgrading from a 1440p 165hz IPS to a 4k 240hz QD-OLED

[mellow sonnet]

my dell ips got big ghosting

[normal oak]

what the heck are you guys building with that

[mortal plume]

Especially visible when driving in 3rd person

[grizzled frost]

I have a T1 with a 4080S, so plenty of horsepower to drive it

[mellow sonnet]

ips is not that good with response time

but definitely better than va

fuck va

[normal oak]

laptop stuck on 120hz 4K but I can only play high def games in 720p low

[mortal plume]

The one that broke only ghosted because of the gpu, this one ghosts because it was 125 dollars for a 1440p 180hz ips monitor

[grizzled frost]

an amazing VA panel is better than an amazing IPS panel, but a mediocre IPS panel is miles better than a mediocre VA panel

[mellow sonnet]

who the hell buys va these days

[mortal plume]

It was always meant as a temporary replacement while i try and get money for an oled

[grizzled frost]

most not oled TVs are VA

above a certain size, IPS just doesn't make much sense

[mellow sonnet]

that explains why they look so shit

tvs look ass in general

[grizzled frost]

not quite sure what about IPS makes them hard to do at size though

[normal oak]

just need one 55" TV to watch educational tutorials about tech

[mellow sonnet]

maybe ppi?

[grizzled frost]

OLED TVs are great

[mortal plume]

Idk our new tv isn't completely horrid esp considering it was only 270 usd

For a 50"

[mellow sonnet]

that backlight will break soon

[grizzled frost]

Was hoping to upgrade my bedroom TV at some point

[normal oak]

brightness 5%

[mortal plume]

Going from a 32" from the stone age is a major upgrade

[glacial cliff]

I mean, it's the only other way to wire stuff isn't it?

[grizzled frost]

rn i'm running a 45" 60hz 1080p VA tv

5 channel surround though

[grizzled frost]

(it was free)

[mellow sonnet]

va is terrible at any price bracket

[normal oak]

i cant do sound, neighbors will know i am working too hard

[mortal plume]

Ours is 4k 50hz and idk if it's ips or va

270 is 270 tho good deal regardless

[grizzled frost]

above 45", it's probably VA, below 45", it can go either way

[mellow sonnet]

if contrast ratio is the telling factor of how "good" a screen is then i have no idea

[grizzled frost]

refresh rate doesn't matter a whole lot for TVs anyways

[glacial cliff]

I got it free. That was paid by the marketing internal business unit at LG in my name for a review unit

[grizzled frost]

most content is 24 or 30fps anyways

[normal oak]

a single 42" 4K tv to watch videos in 4K seems decent to me

[glacial cliff]

Yaaaaaaaaaaas

[vestal stream]

Ok they're useless but for less than a dollar it can't hurt

[mellow sonnet]

hear me out, ips > oled, va, tn

[grizzled frost]

no

[normal oak]

some moving pictures did 12fps, no?

[glacial cliff]

Mine was a 34" monitoring ultrawide 1440p 144hz

[grizzled frost]

Older movies, yeah

Especially ones originally recorded on film

[median warren]

Then, in your opinion. Is it worth the 2 grand for your average gamer, playing a mix of competitive games and story rich singleplayer games?

[vestal stream]

I love my 165hz ips

[mellow sonnet]

ips is used in professional displays where oled doesnt fit

ips can be more accurate in some applications than oled

can be more vivid

[normal oak]

IPS color profiles are decadent for photo viewing

[grizzled frost]

Usually reference monitors are IPS

[mellow sonnet]

oled is overrated

[median warren]

It really isn't

[mellow sonnet]

still has problems

[grizzled frost]

OLED is underrated by the general public, a bit overrated by the enthusiast market

[median warren]

And oled prices are slowly coming down

[glacial cliff]

Give me a few days and ask again. 😛 it gets here Friday

[normal oak]

QLED not mentioned yet

[grizzled frost]

for the vast majority of gamers, if you swap their IPS monitor for an OLED monitor they'd be ecstatic

[mellow sonnet]

qled is just ips/va with quantum dots and a miniled backlight

nothing special

[median warren]

Technically all of our phone screens are oled

[median warren]

Bet, when do you receive it?

[grizzled frost]

funny way of saying "completely different technology"

[normal oak]

im talking contrast ratio and lumosity

[glacial cliff]

Friday 😛

[grizzled frost]

Instead of just filtering light, it actually changes the wavelength of light

[mellow sonnet]

miniled

thats what it is

[median warren]

Okay okay

[grizzled frost]

transformative color mixing instead of subtractive

(no idea if transformative is the right term there)

[normal oak]

i have never seen that word ever before in my life lmao

[mellow sonnet]

how

do you not know what a miniled is

[grizzled frost]

You live under a rock?

[normal oak]

i clearly live under a rock

[grizzled frost]

Evidently

[mellow sonnet]

patrick ahh

[grizzled frost]

that's a turtle

[glacial cliff]

Starfish?

[mellow sonnet]

bro missed out

qled is literally a regular ass lcd with a miniled backlight

[grizzled frost]

the monitors attached to the 10k usd light board i use for work are 1080i VA monitors

[normal oak]

no, waiting for the estate sales

[mellow sonnet]

thats about it

[grizzled frost]

not even 1080p, they're 1080i

10kusd on the light board, 3usd on the monitors

[mellow sonnet]

rendering at 🧍 540

[grizzled frost]

Wonderful world of public education theater funding

[normal oak]

no just more bug reports and feedback lol

[grizzled frost]

a single lighting fixture costs like 100x what the monitors do

and they're relatively cheap fixtures

[mellow sonnet]

ive had a situation where i talked about colors with other people and they kept saying something looks different than me so i just began wanting monitors that have 100%+ srgb coverage and deltaE lower than 2 to always be right

hell even my mac now got a deltaE of 1 and lower

[normal oak]

did they get what they wanted?

[grizzled frost]

the fact so many monitors that people spend hundreds of dollars on can't even cover more than 80% of the sRGB colorspace is fucking insane

65% coverage is unacceptable

[mellow sonnet]

1000+ buck laptops having a 60% srgb screen

[grizzled frost]

It's insane, because most people don't know enough to be concerned by the advertisement of it, but they will notice when their colors look like shit

[mellow sonnet]

i genuinely cant own a monitor that has less srgb than 95%

[grizzled frost]

my work monitors are probably <30% of the sRGB colorspace

total pain for color mixing on stage

[mellow sonnet]

my office dell got like 105% and my main one is well beyond 100% because its 99% dci p3

and then my mac has 100% dci p3

[grizzled frost]

bare minimum nowadays should be 80% on the cheapest monitors possible, anything worth any money should be 95%+

[mellow sonnet]

i have a monitor tism

or screens in general

[grizzled frost]

I care more about lighting than i do monitors, but they function rather similarly

[mellow sonnet]

thats why i pick ips over anything else

[grizzled frost]

in the theatrical lighting world, we get >10bit color

[normal oak]

i was gonna lock in on dell monitors but i didnt get an employee discount so i figured nevermind

[mellow sonnet]

dell ultrasharp is a crazy line

[grizzled frost]

but then we also have to deal with <4bit subtractive colormixing

[mellow sonnet]

bro some older tn panels are literally 6bit with frc

[grizzled frost]

i have worked with fixtures that claimed to have color control, but were actually just using 3 color filters

[mellow sonnet]

thats worst of all

[grizzled frost]

so you have 3! color options

literally just CMY color filters, and they were boolean, so you you have a total of 7 colors

fucking sucks

[mellow sonnet]

limiting

[grizzled frost]

i wish more displays used more than 3 colors for mixing

I've used lights with more than 6 types of color LEDs, i wish that was more common in displays

[mellow sonnet]

oh you mean an enhanced rgb layout

[grizzled frost]

Yeah, like Red, Green, Indigo, Lime, Amber, White

[mellow sonnet]

that would be a little difficult to do

[normal oak]

I'm cooked cause I learned colors in physics

[grizzled frost]

working with UV lights has traumatized me

i have given myself temporary vision damage by looking at them on accident

[normal oak]

reminds me of my long missed cat, i had two laser pointers

[mellow sonnet]

how could we enhance the rgb layout with additional filters

[grizzled frost]

quantum dot layer above the RGB pixels

[mellow sonnet]

i mean what about quantum dots in the liquid crystals themselves

[grizzled frost]

Not sure that's entirely possible or feasible

[sick reef]

fact: ultrabudget phones have an amoled display (e.g. smasnug j1 2016 for 6 bucks and 5.8 euros)

[fallow yacht]

sup nerds

[sick reef]

not at all, most ones, cuz of few budget phones have a IPS display

[median warren]

well yeah just most

[sick reef]

and very old iphones have a ips display too

some very old OLED phones lacks of dark mode or dark theme is default (Android 9 Pie and earlier)

without a custom ROM

[ebon marlin]

Found a steam link at work

I'll probably grab it to be able to stream from my pc to our tv

[abstract wigeon]

maaan my one broke

[bold olive]

ur working in a thrift store right?

[hallow jasper]

I've got that rotting in a drawer somewhere. Limited to 1080p60 output

I did play my first playthrough of Witcher 3 in my living room using that way back in like 2017/18

[ebon marlin]

Recycling center

[ebon marlin]

Eh tbf our tv is 1080p60 aswell so it should be fine

[graceful atlas]

can someone help me fix the problem im having i can't reset my pc or install wndows i gotta download ISO or something like that im so lost

[tidal geyser]

Just got a 7600

Eh hard to see in the pics but it's the wrong way

So yay

[stark flicker]

won't matter

[bold olive]

better

[bold olive]

someone else has my cpu

[tidal geyser]

Ofc just funny

[vapid hollow]

this would be a good combo right? I wanna go drive to microcenter a few hours away and get this bundle (and maybe case)

[native path]

$750 honestly i like it

case obviously seems like it's something for taste that you're willing to pay more for

[vapid hollow]

i currently have a 11900k and 32gb of ddr4 3600, so this would be a couple generation upgrade (dont neeeeeed it, but my pc is 4 years old so i was gonna upgrade it next year anyways)

[native path]

i'd say go for it yeah

for the bundle i mean*

case looks like a lols

[wheat torrent]

did yall see the news

[native path]

lebron made a dunk?

[wheat torrent]

no

the 9950x3d2

[cold skiff]

I like the case but not the price

[wheat torrent]

+5% incease Is good I think

[cold skiff]

American motherboard bundles are good. Sucks UK don’t do it well

[tall sandal]

Hmmm this is interesting

My laptop chip literally draws 102w in cinebench while the 7800X3D is around 80

[cold skiff]

What’s your laptop

[tall sandal]

9800X3D is higher but quite low for a desktop

[tall sandal]

8940HX

[cold skiff]

Yeah AMD power draw is higher on laptops believe it or not

[vapid hollow]

Oh the case would be absolutely unreasonable

That would definitely be a “I want a disk drive and a unique case”

[cold skiff]

Also idles about 5w higher on the higher end chips iirc

[tall sandal]

Mine idles low 20s watts

While Intel 5-10w

[cold skiff]

Yep. That’s a thing.

[tall sandal]

I’ve seen laptops running 200w

[cold skiff]

People in here will tell you how much they love their Intel laptops

[cold skiff]

And tbh Intel is bettererer by far for many laptop situations

[tall sandal]

Classic Intel, it’s astronomical

CPU is cooking on Intel laptops with these very high wattages

[cold skiff]

I’ve always found it a bit confusing but I’m sure there is good reason why the company that makes the console APUs can’t make great laptop processors

[tall sandal]

I’ve never seen anything like this on a laptop

This is more than a good amount of desktops literally, on just a gaming laptop

this can’t be healthy for the chip running at 105 under this full load, if it’s done frequently. AMD targets 95 in their 7000 series in higher end models which pull more wattages

[rigid fjord]

there's one known as star mains here, were there's a junction box in the ceiling and the sockets are wired up to it, similar setup done for lights as well, which results in 1 mcd/rcd per room essentially

[cold skiff]

7000 x3d are 89. The non x3d are 95. Iirc all 9000 are 95

[tall sandal]

Yea these are how it is for the 7950X

But Intel lets these laptop chips at 105c at 200w, that’s too high

[tidal geyser]

200w in a laptop WAT IN THE FEK

[tidal geyser]

what kinda laptop do you have

[tall sandal]

But still intels thermal circuit works well, I’ve seen multiple reviewers mentioned these laptops like MSI titan or HP omen max 16 crash under full load

[tall sandal]

It’s not mine, from a review

My laptop only draws a measly 102w under cinebench

and only 85c

[tidal geyser]

mine cant do much more than 28

[rigid fjord]

this can mean more wire used in doing so, but it also means less likely to drill into or nail into said wires when putting plasterboard on the walls

[tall sandal]

Yea mine is 102

Not massive but still decent

[cold skiff]

105w peak 💪

[tall sandal]

Nah it was 128

Maximum was 127.822w, it shows.

But the thermals seem lower, that’s cuz ASUS has limited the power

[cold skiff]

Oh yeah that’s neat

[tall sandal]

they allowed older model with 7940HX basically same as my 8940HX to run at 135w

which is good, since that one in Cinebench ran 95 at around 130w, mine is 86 as you can see.

but I think it’s good ASUS did this, you don’t need that much

It’s too much for this

[rigid fjord]

tbh the 7940hx is no different from a 7840hx as well as a 8840hx

[tall sandal]

Fr

[rigid fjord]

95c 24/7/365**

[tall sandal]

also I’ve always noticed this CPU seems to be paired with lower end GPUs at times

you can see, always ROG Strix has a high end CPU, but the GPUs vary

[cold skiff]

Cheap

[tall sandal]

Yea price is quite nice for this powerful of a cpu

Perfect for guys who care about CPU performance mainly

RTX 5050 for a laptop is ok, but like it’s for ppl who want to play games like on the side. And who are not super serious

[rigid fjord]

8940hx isn't the high end one btw

[tall sandal]

It’s still powerful

Not the highest end but still good multi core, single is decent

The highest end is 9955HX3D

[tall sandal]

It’s still high end, it does get 32k in cinebench R23

[ebon marlin]

cinebench scores don't really mean anything

[tall sandal]

I mean it does show how powerful

[rigid fjord]

it's no different from a 8945hs, just with a higher power draw, the perfomance is the same otherwise

[ebon marlin]

still doesn't really mean anything

[tall sandal]

Well then what really shows?

In terms of performance

Which tests?

[ebon marlin]

depends on your use case you should be looking for those individual benchmarks

cinebench is literally just a 3d rendering benchmark

you don't do 3d rendering on cpu

[fringe prairie]

which laptop?

[ebon marlin]

what kinda laptop

macbook neo?

[rigid fjord]

it'll only ever do that when the battery is dead or powered off

[ebon marlin]

with a thermal pad mod

[ebon marlin]

499 with student discount

i just farted

much rather just get intel panther lake

[fringe prairie]

just get lunar lake

[ebon marlin]

snapdragon is poop

[fringe prairie]

at the cost of shit software support

[ebon marlin]

intel panther lake can do 20+ hours

[fringe prairie]

lunar lake and ptl can do the same anyways

[ebon marlin]

pretty sure even lunar lake can do that

[rigid fjord]

hard pass

[ebon marlin]

i'm not gay

[cold skiff]

Thanks for letting us know.

[tulip sparrow]

I have an AMD 8840HS based laptop that I got for $650

[ebon marlin]

https://giphy.com/gifs/RespectiveCollective-ai-burger-king-fat-cat-iEeFwkfoEnojcukkoE

[ebon marlin]

yeah but you didn't get a 7840U OLED laptop for 270€ iirc

nvm 300€

acer swift 14

[elfin echo]

No!

[ebon marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/buddy-keep-yapping-keep-yapping-your-mouth-buddy-keep-yapping-your-mouth-n-rabbit-gif-25286735

[carmine yew]

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/9000-series/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition.html

So, we're back to this being real now?

[elfin echo]

Nooo!!! 😭

[gaunt spade]

wat

[tranquil wharf]

looking forward to phoronix benchmarks of this tbh

considering that a lot of dev workloads that phoronix tests actually benefit from X3D based on their reviews of 9950X3D, could be interesting bumps in some test results

[gaunt spade]

7840u my beloved

[ebon marlin]

you are a gay

[long cradle]

I just took my PC out for a dusting.

[gaunt spade]

not me

[long cradle]

Quite proud of how clean it looks now.

[bold olive]

why do i always get a fight with ubuntu's terminal literally when i return to ubuntu after weeks of using windows

[long cradle]

My motherboard supports 11th gen.

[gaunt spade]

what

[long cradle]

But this is the CPU I actually have.

[ebon marlin]

insane info